A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

foam Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 4.1 9 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences178 6 1 2 0 0
Number of authors15 7 5 1 2

Occurrences of foam in Corpus

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Central

Le Marie, Nicole nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Last Day At East Wemyss, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, poetry
spume and foam as fallen blossom on page 87

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
yin ae they big rid and white foam finger hings. Ken, like the y on page 100

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ckin fawn apart an the fuckin foam's aw pure comin ootae the cus on page 29

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
When foam erupts fae the bottle, Maw sh on page 13

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Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
me bad kind of sound-proofing foam, and tech bloke fir one of th
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ecisely, the wee bit ay white foam that’s formin roon the side
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
DavidGHFrost Take the Cremola Foam if you can afford it and squa(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
it rives at him an garrs him foam at e moo an keeps on malagaro on page 96

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Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
y tae get yer ain face on the foam tap o yer pint! on page 8

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Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
e shorie tae waatch the waves foam and fizz tae pass the time.
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Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
vil’s Peatstack in a mash o foam near hittin the tap o’t. It
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Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ed like hundog’s pyokes and foam fleein fae his mooth and fae
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@FaeFoggie tweeted
r a guid shave wi a brush and foam. Nippy but feelin rare. https(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
atchful, still, ower wave and foam on page 48

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Shetland

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
xford blue wi cotton coloured foam, aggressively blashin in my f
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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
! I imagine it lik a creamola foam ice cream float(2018) search twitter

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